The Young and the Restless

Meet the Latest Additions

(Jayden in complete disbelief as he realizes Fluffy is eating the fish)

(Jayden freaking out because Kylie is allowing this to take place)

My poor deprived kids...since I'm such a mean mom and still haven't given in and gotten them a pet, they've had to resort to extreme measures. Meet the newest pets in our family...Fluffy, Jack and Zachary B. (and the mechanical fish, but I can't remember their names). So far this has kept everyone happy and Kylie thinks they are soooo lucky because they have 5 pets and most everyone has only 1. We also have a pet moth, Sarah, but she comes and goes. Whenever they see a moth they think it's the one and only Sarah and get so excited. They especially love waking up and finding that she chose to sleep in their room that night. Sometimes we would find dead moths and they would be crushed, but when another moth would show up then they just figured she had been sleeping. The kids treat the stuffed animals like real pets and I'm always finding water bowls around the house. But it doesn't even compare to the new "sister" in the family, Reyna. She is the doll that Kylie got for Christmas last year and when I was a couple months pregnant with Maddox she decided that Reyna was a real baby and that we should treat her like one. I thought this would last a week or two and die down, but no. We have been going about 11 months strong now. I am only allowed to carry Reyna like a real baby and if she catches me treating her as anything less than human than she'll get so hurt and say "real moms don't do that!" I also need to periodically move her around the house throughout the day so that when Kylie comes home she's not in the same place as when she left for school. She has her own carseat and has come on every family vacation. She has been blessed in family prayers. She has been put in time out for "fighting". She has had her toe nails painted. She has her own crib, but usually sleeps with Kylie (unless she is being too loud, then she has to go out). She wears Kylie's baby dresses and comes with us to church. She sits in her high chair at family dinners and does pretty much everything else the family does. I guess now I know what it's like to have 4 kids!